Coccum

Garcinia indica

Also known as Brindonia tallow tree, Goa-Butter, Indian gamboge, Indian Tallow Tree, Kokum, Kokam butter tree, Mangosteen oil tree, Wild mangosteen

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About Coccum

Garcinia indica, a plant in the mangosteen family (Clusiaceae), commonly known as kokum, is a fruit-bearing tree that has culinary, pharmaceutical, and industrial uses. It grows primarily in India's Western Ghats: in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala. It is considered as an endemic species to the Western Ghats and forests in India. It grows in coastal and foothill moist forests up to 1,000 metres elevation with more than 2,500 mm of average annual rainfall. It favors lateritic alluvial soils with a depth of one or more metres and pH of 6.7. The species was first described as Brindonia indica by Louis Marie Aubert du Petit Thouars in 1806. In 1823 Jacques Denys Choisy placed the species in genus Garcinia as G. indica.

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